Recently, I was refactoring some Jade views of an ExpressJS application which shared significant JavaScript code. The JavaScript part required some variables from the server. Generally, this can be done like this: script(type='text/javascript'). var user = !{JSON.stringify(userObject)}; Previously, the project had the following structure for many …

Sorting in MongoDB can cause a lot pain (in the ass!). The problem: MongoDB always sorts case sensitive in the following order Numerics: 0-9 Uppercase letters: A-Z Lowercase letters: a-z For the following examples, assume the upcoming Tag schema and documents in our Tags collection: Schema { name: String, approved: boolean, …